Dive Bomber
Alternative title: Night Raider
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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In World War 2, the Bismarck battleship has been dominant thus far. Armed with torpedoes and a machine gun, can you destroy the Bismarck with a well-aimed torpedo and turn the tide of WW2 in the Allies' favour? Find out is this flight simulation and strategy game.

How you complete the task is largely up to you. You will need to deal with the plane's instruments, to take off, and plan which areas of the sky you patrol in the search for the Bismarck. There are four distinct instrument panels to control engineer, navigator and gunner functions as well as the main flight controls. Statistics on how much of each enemy's fleet you destroy are kept.

Alternate Titles
"Night Raider" -- European title

Trivia

The game is based on story surrounding The Bismark in World War II. The Bismark is one of the largest and biggest Naval Ship ever built for the German Navy. It was first launched in February 14, 1939 but was truly completed (finishing touches) in March, 1941...by then was the world's most powerful fighting ship in the Northern Atlantic and was a serious priority threat to the Allied Naval Command. It's crew consisted of 2,300 officers and men.

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Description from the packaging:

It's 1941. Perhaps the most critical point in World War II. The War's outcome could go either way.
You're the pilot of a World War II dive bomber armed with machine guns and torpedoes. They've sent you aboard the huge aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal. With one mission in mind. Sink the most feared, most powerful German battleship on the high seas. The Bismarck.

Inside the cockpit, there are real time controls, gauges, and switches. Maybe you should take a few practice missions before undertaking your fateful flight to the Bismarck. Any good at reading maps?
Use your navigation map to monitor intelligence reports concerning enemy locations and to create your own "fight plan." You decide whether to rescue your aircraft carrier under siege, or proceed straight ahead for the Bismarck.

Feeling the pressure? Feel the beads of sweat pouring down your forehead? It's getting hot in that cockpit isn't it? Now's not the time to relax. Ready the guns. There are enemy U-boats, E-Boats, mine fields, and fighter planes bent on making fish food of you and the HMS Ark Royal.

But when the final moment of reckoning comes, and you've got the Bismarck dead-center in your sights, you'll know what to do. No, not turn off the computer. Fire one, laddie, fire one!

A real-life torpedo bomber design puts you in the pilot seat on a mission to sink the feared German battleship, the Bismarck.

Simulated take-offs, landings and enemy gun-fire.

Fire from the cockpit or tail gunner position to shoot down relentless enemy fighters, deadly U-boats, E-Boats and mine fields.

Monitor intelligence and "position reports" with your navigation map.

Play individually or with a friend.

Dive Bomber. Another intensely fun game from U.S. Gold.


http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/dive-bomber
